In his speech marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Bush made no attempt at taking responsibility fo
In his speech marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Bush made no attempt at taking responsibility for the tragedies that followed that awful day.
By Joan Walsh
TODAY 9:34 AM
The people who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001, deserved whatever 20th anniversary remembrance they needed. They can mourn any way they want to, til the end of time, and if the media continues to follow their heartbreaking and often inspiring stories, that’s understandable.
The people who were responsible for botching the aftermath of the terror attack, though, did not deserve the staging of grief porn and historical amnesia we watched all weekend.
And by those people, I especially mean former president George W. Bush, who was valorized all over cable news for a short speech that had a few good lines. I felt like history demanded I watch him there in Shanksville, Pa., where 40 passengers crashed an airplane, allegedly intended to make the US Capitol a fireball, into a bright green field near that rural town, population 237.
Bush can sometimes be lucid, while also prone to unexpected displays of emotion, and I thought: What if he’s moved today to admit he missed, or ignored, all the intelligence that Al Qaeda was planning a massive attack on the United States all through that summer of 2001? Or maybe more important, what if he confessed to fucking up the Afghanistan war so extravagantly, going into Iraq so irresponsibly, killing what many sources estimate were hundreds of thousands of people (Americans made up the smallest number; most were Afghan and Iraqi civilians)?
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/george-w-bush-september-11/
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makes a small turn toward the right side...which W has now.
Hey, I hated the goddamn sonofabitch as much as anyone else back in 2003-08, MORE maybe--- I had certain fantasies about him, and a tower, and a high-powered telescopic rifle...
(At times I thought the only reason not to proceed, was because I did not possess the technical aspects to be successful with that assignment of "blood work"
Luckily I redeemed myself through the "resistance" of small-time shortwave pirate radio. It was an "outlet" which prevented me from doing anything more "extremist".
I only wish he had become a painter, about 10 years earlier.
